OMG!! I am so relieved to have found this thread!!

Alan - you're a gem!!

With pg#1, the pain got so bad that I too walked like an old woman who had been riding a horse for too long!! :eek:!! I had to hold the walls as each step was horrendous!! (By the end I'd end up moving to the couch in the wee hours of the morning with a wheat bag on my back and then wouldn't be able to get up until my portable hoist - DH - was able to pull me up!! LOL!! How embarrassing!! )

This time, my hips have already started to play silly nana's with me and I'm just about to hit 17 wks! I'll wake up and feel like my hip has popped out of my pelvis!! :eek: I don't know if I should do this or not, but I lay on my back, pull my knee up and then gently rotate it out - sometimes I feel a click or hear a pop (ick!!) and then the pain goes....for a little while anyways. it's real "poo-on-toast" when even that doesn't work!!)

My midwife said that whenever I get up or roll over, I should pull my lower muscles in as if I would when trying to fit into a tight pair of jeans ... anyone any idea why to do this?? Does it strengthen certain muscles etc?? Preggy brain stepped in and I forgot to ask!!